Fred Schultz has been in the publishing business since 1980 and was editor-in-chief of Naval History from 1993-2005. He has conducted interviews with some 75 high-profile people, including historians, government officials, combat veterans, journalists, explorers, and Hollywood stars. He is currently a freelance writer living in Annapolis.

Articles by Fred Schultz

U.S. NAVY

On Our Scope

By Fred L. Schultz, Editor-in-Chief
June 2005
The old saying about a picture being worth a thousand words is especially true when it comes to catching the eye of a potential book (and magazine, for that matter) ...
NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER

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By Fred L. Schultz, Editor-in-Chief
April 2005
In 2004, Naval History’s parent organization, the U.S. Naval Institute, decided to change the format of the seminar program that traditionally complemented the organization’s Annual Meeting. The program, which ...

On Our Scope

By Fred L. Schultz, Editor-in-Chief
February 2005
It is hard to believe ten years have passed since the February 1995 Naval History, when we commemorated the 50th anniversary of what Retired Marine Corps Colonel Joe Alexander ...

On Our Scope

By Fred L. Schultz, Editor-in-Chief
December 2004
If this issue has a theme, it is combat photography. We begin with an article about one of the most-analyzed photographs of World War II, an aerial shot captured from ...
C. NAZELROD, S. LEE

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By Fred L. Schultz, Editor-in-Chief
October 2004
It is becoming increasingly clear that we can do only so much with ink on paper to bring history alive. Describing movements of ships and amphibious landings with words, maps ...
COURTESY OF HENRY BALLONE

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By Fred L. Schultz, Editor-in-Chief
August 2004
Navies finally may be attracting long-overdue attention from the Civil War history community. In this issue, we present some cases in point in an expanded section made possible through a ...
NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL

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By Fred L. Schultz, Editor-in-Chief
June 2004
In the June 1994 issue, we covered the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy from varied and often lesser-known points of view: historian Stephen E. Ambrose set the ...

On Our Scope

By Fred L. Schultz, Editor-in-Chief
August 2003
Sometimes we are at a loss to describe the essence of the U.S. Naval Institute—the parent organization of Naval History—and the importance of the discourse found in its magazines ...
STEVE EARLEY (THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT / AP POOL)

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By Fred L. Schultz, Editor-in-Chief
December 2002
Every time someone on our staff broached the subject of underwater archaeology, Membership Services and Communications Director Carol Mason—who left us recently in favor of academic pursuits—liked to poke good-natured ...